First, a request: if you haven't looked at, or maybe even filled out, my survey about failure, I'd really appreciate it if you did. It only takes a few minutes and I'd love to get some different stories and perspectives for something I'm working on: https://t.co/p7Fim8ysB7 Thank you. You are very nice and everybody says so. Now, on with the post. I have a challenge for you. If I asked you to design a Tableau dashboard in the style of Jonni Walker, could you do it? Actually, l

Back in the 1990s, I once was stuck on a plane out of Dallas with an extraordinarily memorable stranger. In the years since, I have usually referred to him, derisively, as “The Man’s Man,” in that he was the Hollywood stereotype of a brash, bullying salesman. Middle-aged, rumpled, sweaty, and several score pounds past his high-school-football-playing weight. He reminded me of the characters in the old recurring Saturday Night Live sketches about Bill Brasky. He collapsed into

For my submission for the third #IronViz feeder competition--using a mobile design--I decided to use a data source close to my heart: my own heartrate. Yes, I'm one of those insufferable people who wears a fitness tracker all day, including when I play soccer, which I do a couple times a week. Curiously, I hate exercise, and unless soccer is involved, I'll pretty much never get my heart rate elevated. A year's worth of data supports my thesis. I began by downloading the data